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$590M-plus Powerball: 1 winning ticket sold in Fla

3:37am

(AP) It's all about the odds, and one lone ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching each of the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an...

Medical emergency eyed in Va. parade crash

3:37am

(AP) Witnesses described a frantic scene and close calls after an elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a small Virginia mountain town's parade.

Probe into Conn. train crash giving way to cleanup

3:37am

(AP) Investigators will look closely at a broken section of rail to see if it is connected to the commuter train derailment and collision outside New York City that left...

(AP) In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a...

Hofstra student killed by police during break-in

3:37am

(AP) A lottery official says 1 winning ticket has been sold in Florida for a record Powerball jackpot of more than $590 million.

1 winning ticket sold in Fla. on Powerball

2:36am

(AP) It's all about the odds.

Powerball drawing follows late ticket-buying rush

1:36am

(AP) A Hofstra University student being held at gunpoint by an intruder was accidently shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to the home invasion at an...

Authorities: Hofstra student was killed by police

10:36pm

Up to 60 injured after car drives into Va. parade

5:37pm

(AP) Police have identified the alleged home invader involved in the death of a New York college student early Friday morning.

Suspect identified in fatal Hofstra home invasion

4:36pm

(AP) The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist...

Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges

10:38am

(AP) North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest...

SKorea says NKorea fires 3 short-range missiles

6:36am

(AP) Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent more than 60 people to Connecticut hospitals, severely damaged the tracks and...

Probe begins after Conn. commuter trains crash

3:38am

SPIN METER: GOP raps Dems for IRS union cash

8:36pm

(AP) A New York-area commuter railroad says two trains have collided in Connecticut. Police say that 20 or more people were injured, but that there were no...

20 to 25 injured as Conn. commuter trains collide

7:37pm

(AP) Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify all 25,000 people involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an...

Hagel orders review of sex-abuse prevention

6:39pm

(AP) About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital of Damascus. They grabbed a...

Rights groups: Syria holds thousands incommunicado

12:39pm

(AP) Twin explosions ripped through a crowd of Sunni worshippers in Baghdad on Friday, an attack which, combined with a second deadly bombing at a Sunni funeral just outside...

Mosque, funeral bombings kill 47 in Iraq

11:39am

(AP) An Uzbekistan national living in Idaho has made his first court appearance on charges he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in...

Idaho man in court for Uzbekistan terrorism plot

11:39am

(AP) The Moroccan woman at the center of a sex scandal involving former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi testified Friday in court for the first time, describing how a young...

Ruby testifies about Berlusconi 'bunga bunga' fest

9:37am

(AP) Raul Rodriguez counts himself a lucky man.

Some lost everything to North Texas tornado

3:37am

Justice Dept. faulted over terrorist identities

6:37pm

(AP) The jury deciding the fate of Jodi Arias has heard dramatic and emotional testimony from the brother of the man she murdered.

Victim's brother testifies in Jodi Arias case

3:39pm

(AP) Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant black shawl. Hidden from view, her words burst forth as...

Afghans tell of US soldier's killing rampage

2:38pm

(AP) Don't look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the agency's acting...

Ouster of IRS official isn't ending investigations

11:39am

(AP) David Beckham is retiring from soccer after the season, ending a career in which he become a global superstar since starting his career at Manchester United.

Beckham to retire from soccer at end of season

10:39am

(AP) A suicide bomber rammed his car into a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least six people in the explosion and wounding more than 30, officials...

Car bomb hits NATO convoy in Kabul; 6 dead

5:36am

(AP) So you didn't win Wednesday's $360 million Powerball jackpot? Make that you and everyone else.

No Powerball winner; jackpot soars to $475 million

5:36am

(AP) Don't look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the agency's acting...

Ouster of IRS official isn't ending investigations

3:41am

(AP) One after another, the charges have tumbled out allegations of sexual assaults in the military that have triggered outrage, from local commanders to Capitol Hill and...

Sexual abuse cases put Pentagon under fire

10:37pm

(AP) Then CIA-Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points the Obama administration used after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi,...

Petraeus email objected to Benghazi talking points

9:36pm

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